Oxygen as default font

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Wed Mar 5 13:34:36 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:06:43PM +0100, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2014 13:36:33 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > picked up by fontconfig, though. This means, installing it to a non-/usr
> > prefix will likely mean the font is never going to be found for the user.
> > There's a trick to fix this: fonts are picked up from XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts
> > and ~/.fonts/ by default on most systems. So what I'm doing now is
> > symlining the Oxygen font (conditionally) in one of those dirs (~/.fonts/
> > if XDG_DATA_HOME isn't set).
> 
> so would symlink in the home if the prefix is not /usr?
> one thing that may be useful is to see how packagers expect fonts to be 
> installed?

we install oxygen to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/oxygen-fonts

it may be easiest to just release oxygen font separately and have it
as a build depends of kde-runtime, that way people who install
kde-runtime into something other than /usr can just install the
package.

Jonathan


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